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Sexpansion: Mar 22, 2003; DELETED

I think vel'koz support is incredibly annoying to play against if you're good at it. I imagine it works pretty well until you get into very high elos where you absolutely need the ability to buy a bunch of utility items.

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Elentor: Dec 14, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

9w 1l

# ? Oct 22, 2018 22:54

kingcobweb: Apr 16, 2005

Sexpansion posted:

I think vel'koz support is incredibly annoying to play against if you're good at it. I imagine it works pretty well until you get into very high elos where you absolutely need the ability to buy a bunch of utility items.

It works up to the Elo where your opponents are better at dodging skillshots than you are at hitting them.

# ? Oct 22, 2018 22:58

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Sexpansion posted:

I think vel'koz support is incredibly annoying to play against if you're good at it. I imagine it works pretty well until you get into very high elos where you absolutely need the ability to buy a bunch of utility items.

Yeah if you play him right the other lane will never, ever get close. He's kind of situational though and if you miss all his skills then like a good Leona would immediately be up in your poo poo to set up a double. He really had the same weaknesses as mid; he's made of wet paper and explodes instantly if you can get in his face and stay there.

# ? Oct 22, 2018 22:59

Fajita Queen: Jun 21, 2012

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yeah if you play him right the other lane will never, ever get close. He's kind of situational though and if you miss all his skills then like a good Leona would immediately be up in your poo poo to set up a double. He really had the same weaknesses as mid; he's made of wet paper and explodes instantly if you can get in his face and stay there.

I still occasionally reminisce over the glory days of Vel'Koz mid being sorta popular, when I could just jam AP Malphite and ride the gravy train all the way to their 20 minute surrender.

# ? Oct 22, 2018 23:10

Schiavona: Oct 8, 2008

The Shortest Path posted:

I still occasionally reminisce over the glory days of Vel'Koz mid being sorta popular, when I could just jam AP Malphite and ride the gravy train all the way to their 20 minute surrender.

Deathfire Grasp AP malphite ruled. Same with AP Sion.

I wonder if trinity/Tiamat Leona would work in TT...

# ? Oct 22, 2018 23:48

Super Librarian: Jan 4, 2005

The old build that I miss the most is AP mid, DFG Sejuani

# ? Oct 22, 2018 23:50

Sexpansion: Mar 22, 2003; DELETED

mid sion with banner and zzrot was my favorite league cheese of all time

# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:01

Slaapaav: Mar 3, 2006; by Azathoth

favorite league was wriggle procs giving turtle udyr unlimited mana

# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:40

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

I miss the old infinite stacking of...whichever that augment was. The original yellow one? I had like 160 stacks as jungle Irelia one time.

It was...bad for the other team.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:42

kingcobweb: Apr 16, 2005

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I miss the old infinite stacking of...whichever that augment was. The original yellow one? I had like 160 stacks as jungle Irelia one time.

It was...bad for the other team.

No. No

# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:54

rabidsquid: Oct 11, 2004; LOVES THE KOG

lot of people telling on themselves with their open the gates nostalgia

# ? Oct 23, 2018 02:25

Fajita Queen: Jun 21, 2012

Slaapaav posted:

favorite league was wriggle procs giving turtle udyr unlimited mana

Locket, you were too good for this crapsack world.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 03:27

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Im happy that stacking BC is suboptimal but still a thing. I miss Essense Reaver Tryndamere. It was cool going from 0 cdr to like 30 cdr in one buy

# ? Oct 23, 2018 03:43

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

GP10 item stacking was the real mvp. :rip:

heart of gold

# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:13

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

KirbyKhan posted:

Im happy that stacking BC is suboptimal but still a thing. I miss Essense Reaver Tryndamere. It was cool going from 0 cdr to like 30 cdr in one buy

It was before my time but wasn't there a point where picking Garen and then just building nothing but cleavers was hilariously overpowered?

# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:21

rabidsquid: Oct 11, 2004; LOVES THE KOG

that was a thing as recently as the bruiser rework or juggernaut rework or whenever the gently caress they massively buffed darius, five BC garen was a legitimate build then

# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:24

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It was before my time but wasn't there a point where picking Garen and then just building nothing but cleavers was hilariously overpowered?

My good man, there was a point in the game where everyone built cleavers as first items. AD assassins mid, bruises top and ADCs.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:25

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It was before my time but wasn't there a point where picking Garen and then just building nothing but cleavers was hilariously overpowered?

It had everything he needed. Health, AD, CDR. It was a time before cdr was a unique passive, there were a couple builds that would stack feindish codexes or brutalizers (1337 gold nvr4get)

# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:25

Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

In beta the go to build for a lot of people was 6 sunfires cause they stacked.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:13

Spokes: Jan 9, 2010; Thanks for a MONSTER of an avatar, Awful Survivor Mods!

Invalid Validation posted:

In beta the go to build for a lot of people was 6 sunfires cause they stacked.

funfire eve!

# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:15

Fajita Queen: Jun 21, 2012

Multiple sunfire capes on perma-stealthed champions was awesome, but not quite as awesome as Shaco and his ult both with 6 sunfire capes.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:16

kingcobweb: Apr 16, 2005

For a more recent one, preseason Klepto sona is the most broken thing I can remember. That or rework Morde; no one WANTED to play it, but it was so braindead that someone would assume Morde Duty if it went through bans.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:25

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

kingcobweb posted:

For a more recent one, preseason Klepto sona is the most broken thing I can remember. That or rework Morde; no one WANTED to play it, but it was so braindead that someone would assume Morde Duty if it went through bans.

I did want to play it

It was out of sheer character loyalty though, I used to play Morde long before he was good just because I super loved his aesthetics

He still really needs a proper rework IMO, thankfully he can't be that far away now that Nunu is finished

# ? Oct 23, 2018 07:09

Stefan Prodan: Jan 7, 2002; I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!; Grimey Drawer

Remember preseason 4 top taric that poo poo was insane

# ? Oct 23, 2018 08:24

Slaapaav: Mar 3, 2006; by Azathoth

Miftan posted:

GP10 item stacking was the real mvp. heart of gold

wriggle hog philo on every champion

# ? Oct 23, 2018 09:42

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Slaapaav posted:

wriggle hog philo on every champion

Haha can you even imagine that anymore? I'm so glad games are now 30 minutes instead of 45+. Best change riot ever made.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 11:06

fatal oopsie-daisy: Jul 30, 2007; by R. Guyovich

Transient People posted:

It was out of sheer character loyalty though, I used to play Morde long before he was good just because I super loved his aesthetics

da gently caress

# ? Oct 23, 2018 11:17

fatal oopsie-daisy: Jul 30, 2007; by R. Guyovich

# ? Oct 23, 2018 12:10

Dancer: May 23, 2011

For me one nostalgic thing is that brief period of time where rage-blade's charged up effect was a small aoe that procced echo jungle item, and smite mid ezreal was broken.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 12:27

Ra Ra Rasputin: Apr 2, 2011

Warwick when red smite was introduced and it did damage with every hit, he was the first champion to hit above 60% winrate because by level 6 he had a point and click stun ult that would do 600+ damage, most of which was true damage.

# ? Oct 23, 2018 12:38

pog boyfriend: Jul 2, 2011

bring back old ap alistar. those fuckers made it fotm and took out the sheen mechanic and ruined my favourite character, i was playing alistar top and mid since season 2

# ? Oct 23, 2018 12:47

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan